Max heetwig



M. HERTWIG.

LIQUID COOLER.'

(No Model.)

Patented Nov. 2, 1897.

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MAXHERTWIG, HOBOKEN, NEW JERSEY.

LIQUID-COOLER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 592,781, dated November 2, 1897.

Application filed February 19, 1897. Serial No. 624,226. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom it may concern: To the body of the hook c there ispivoted 5o Be it known that I, MAX HERTWIG, of l-Ioat e3 a second hook e4, that engages a pin a3,

boken, Hudson county, New Jersey, have inprojecting outwardly from the body of shell vented an Improved Liquid-Cooler, of which a. To open the cooler, the hook et is rst D the following is a specification. swung sidewise by a knob c5 to unlock the This invention relatesto a liquid-cooler cover from shell u, and then the hook c is 55 more particularly designed fordomestic use swung upwardto 4disconnect the two sections and by which beer, wine, or other beverages of the cover from each other and permit them contained in bottles, bowls, or glasses may to be opened on hinge d.

ro be kept cool for table-service. At a short distance above its lower end each In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is cover-section CZ is provided with a semiannu- 6o a perspective view of my improved cooler; lar base-plate d2, to the lower side of which Fig. 2, a vertical central section thereof; there is riveted a semiannular flexible pack- Fig. 3, a horizontal section on line 3 3, Fig. 2; ingvf, made, preferably, of rubber or similar I5 and Fig.- 4 a top viewwith the stand and material and designed to snugly embrace the cover removed. z neck of the bottle A. The packing f forms 65 The letter a represents the cylindrical shell an air-excluding cover for the ice-chamber d or casing of the cooler, within which there is when the cooler is closed, and thus effectively centered an open-work wire basket l), between protects the ice against rapid melting.

2o which and the wall of the shell an annular I Aprefer to provide the shell a with a hanchamber o. for the reception of the chopped die a4 and with a trunnion a5, placed diamet- 7o ice is formed. The basket b is secured to the rically7 opposite to pin a3, which constitutes shell o. by means of ascrew-stud a2, that proa second trunnion. These trunnions are jects upwardly from the bottom of the shell hung into a pair of notched standards g of a 25 and engages a tapped reinforced perforation stand g. The base-plate of this stand is dishb in the bottom of the basket, so that the shaped and contains, preferably, an absorb- 75 basket may be readily removed for cleaning ent pad h to catch the drippings. By means purposes. of this stand the cooler may be tilted in a Against the inner face of the basket b there convenient manner to discharge the contents 3o are placed a number of upright circumferof the bottle A.

entially-arranged ribs c, attached, preferably, It will be seen that in my improved cooler 8o to the bottom of the basketA and between the ice is effectively protected against rapid which the bottle or other receptacle A, that melting and that, moreover, the bottle may holds the liquid to be cooled, is adaptedto be be tilted while in the cooler to discharge its 35 confined. These ribs prevent a direct concontents.

tact between ice and the bottleAand form a What I claim is- 8 cold-air chamber around the latter. A liquid-cooler composed of a shell, an in- To the upper end of the shell u, there are closed basket, a bulged sectional lid having hinged at d the two halves or sections d of a divided annular base-plate, a packing se- 4o a divided laterally-opening cover. Each of cured thereto, a hook pivoted to one coverthese cover-sections is bulged, as shown, so section, a pin on the other coversection 9o as to inclose the main length of the bottleadapted to be engaged thereby, a second hook neck, which projects outward through a cenpivoted to the body of the first hook, and a tralopeningofthe cover. Thecover-sections pin on the shell adapted to be engaged by 45 d are adapted to be locked rmly to each said second hook, substantially as specified.

other and also to the shell a, when closed, by MAX HERTWIGH means of a hook e, hinged at c to one of the Witnesses: cover-sections and engaging a pin e2 of the F. v. BRIESEN,

other cover-section. WILLIAM SCHULZ. 

